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Mundus

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Registered: 2017-07-14

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Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

So, when I installed my Arch I had one partition with 100GB for boot and one partition with ~18GB for Home. The problem is 18GB isn't enough for my stuff, and I wondered if (and how) could I use the space in the boot partition for saving archives. Real newbie question, sorry. Anyone can shed a light on the topic for me?

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

How do you end up with 100GB for boot? My boot is 64GB but that's an USB stick with an entire collection of Live CDs on it.

Do you mean 100GB root?

What does it look like in df -h? If you don't actually need more than 18GB for root you could probably just switch the two.

Mundus

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Registered: 2017-07-14

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

df -h gives out this: dev             1,9G     0  1,9G   0% /dev
run             1,9G  1,2M  1,9G   1% /run
/dev/sda1        98G   14G   80G  15% /
tmpfs           1,9G  837M  1,1G  44% /dev/shm
tmpfs           1,9G     0  1,9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           1,9G  252K  1,9G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda3        17G   15G  1,1G  94% /home
tmpfs           388M   48K  388M   1% /run/user/1000

Which means all my space is in sda1, but I'm not sure how to save stuff there

Zeox101

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Registered: 2017-02-05

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … Partitions

You could resize /dev/sda1 to be smaller, and then use the extra space to expand /dev/sda3. You'll have to do this in the live environment, or from another linux installation (if you have one) though.

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c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … Partitions...You'll have to do this in the live environment, or from another linux installation (if you have one) though.

GParted Live ISO works well, and with either EFI or MSDOS. I've used it and trust it; a more-or-less a gold standard. Not to dismiss the value of a handy Arch Linux ISO....

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Gx-0x37

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Registered: 2017-07-01

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

Make an live iso.Then do the partition.

Blasphemist

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From: Colorado

Registered: 2013-01-17

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

GPT or MBR? The info above helped show us the utilization of your partitions but to better answer your question as to how to best make the space that you need we need to see how your partitions are laid out and whether or not you have a Guid Parition Table or an MBR.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fd … partitions
Show us the output of gdisk or fdisk please so that we can see how your partitions are ordered on the disk.

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Trilby

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Re: Problems with Partitioning and Storage Space

Do you have other distros on this disk and/or what is sda2?

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